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Learn More About Retirement Planning 

Navigating Market Downturn

How to Navigate a Market Downturn for Retirees

With the market decline this year, people want to know what they can do. The following are suggestions and actions you can take to help navigate a market downturn. Key Suggestions Complete a Portfolio Performance Review The first step is to find out if other portfolios with a similar investment mix

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Paying Income Taxes in Retirement

Paying Your Income Taxes in Retirement

When making the transition from your working years to retirement, a common concern or question that comes up is, “How do I pay my taxes in retirement?”  I had this conversation with two clients recently as many retirees are unsure of how taxes work in retirement. Key Takeaways: As a

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three stages of Retirement spending

The Three Stages of Retirement Spending

When retirement planning, you may want to view your spending in three different phases. Michael Stein, who wrote “The Prosperous Retirement”, divided retirement into three decades: the GO-GO years, SLOW-GO years, and the NO-GO years. When discussing retirement income planning, Frank Jasek CPA, CA and I rephrased those terms based

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Tax Credit Reviews

Key Tax Credits to Review

Key Tax Credits to Review As everyone begins to assemble their tax documents to complete their 2021 income tax returns, there are some tax credits you will not want to overlook. Be sure to bring any expenses to your accountant. Here is a helpful list. Carry Charges If you have

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Preserving Wealth

Preserving Wealth The Next Generation

The Definitive Guide to Protecting, Investing, and Transferring Wealth. This book is based on my experiences working with many families developing and implementing plans to build, preserve and transfer wealth. I hope you enjoy the first chapter! CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION—MEET THE CAST It was the usual opening day for our

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Investment and retirement discussion about money and when you will need it for retirement.
Estate & Legacy Planning

When Do You Need The Money?

In a meeting with a potential client, they asked, “How should I invest the money I just received?” The key issues to review are: What ...
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To reduce your tax burden, you will want to have investments that generate capital gains and dividend income and avoid interest income and foreign dividends.
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How Business Owners can increase their Retirement Savings by Investing within their Corporation.

A great strategy many owners of Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPC) use to build up retirement savings is to invest within their corporation using the benefit of ...
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The benefits of Disability Insurance
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Do you need Disability Insurance?

Disability Insurance? While reviewing the financial documents during a meeting with a couple in their forties who wished to create a retirement plan, I didn’t ...
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Probate Planning with Trusts
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Trusts for Retirees – Probate Planning

When estate planning, most retirees wish to review strategies to avoid probate fees, which in Ontario are 1.5% of the value of the asset that ...
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Chapter Seven on being an executor
Estate & Legacy Planning

So, You’re an Executor – What are Your Duties and Liabilities?

Chapter Seven of Preserving Wealth. For your FREE Copy of Preserving Wealth, CLICK HERE The first three days of our vacation were perfect. The temperature ...
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Four conversations families should be having concerning their financial and estate plans.
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The Four Essential Family Conversations

Excerpts from the Book – Preserving Wealth – written by Jack Lumsden, MBA, CFP® Based on my experience of helping many families over the years, ...
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Download your FREE COPY of our recently published Book PRESERVING WEALTH: THE NEXT GENERATION

The Definitive Guide to Protecting, Investing, and Transferring Wealth.

You can purchase a Hard Copy of Preserving Wealth HERE

Download Your FREE copy of our White Paper: ‘Your Retirement Road Map: How to Make the Transition to Retirement’ HERE

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